We see different situations across the country, but anecdotally I'm hearing that there are enough Canadian people trained as doctors that we could put a lot more doctors into the system. There are a lot of Canadian-trained doctors who are not actually able to successfully get a match or get a placement.
In B.C. specifically, they have an issue because of the financial incentives they've put in place provincially: It makes more sense to be an ER doctor than it does to be a family physician, because you have no overhead as an ER doctor for basically the same salary.
Are there a number of solutions that you would recommend in order to address the doctor shortage?